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  • Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn gets a release date

    By Express News Service

    Actor-filmmaker Emerald Fennell’s upcoming directorial Saltburn will hit the theatres in New York and Los Angeles on November 24 and will expand wide on December 1. 

    Saltburn stars an ensemble cast, including Rosamund Pike, Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver and Archie Madekwe, among others. 

    Saltburn marks Fennell’s sophomore directorial after the Oscar-winning 2020 film, Promising Young Woman, which was nominated for a few categories at the 93rd Academy Awards, including Best Director, Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Film Editing. Fennell went on to win the award for Best Original Screenplay. 

    Fennell also served as the scriptwriter of Saltburn. According to reports, the film’s plot details concern a grand, aristocratic English family.

    Actor-filmmaker Emerald Fennell’s upcoming directorial Saltburn will hit the theatres in New York and Los Angeles on November 24 and will expand wide on December 1. 

    Saltburn stars an ensemble cast, including Rosamund Pike, Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver and Archie Madekwe, among others. 

    Saltburn marks Fennell’s sophomore directorial after the Oscar-winning 2020 film, Promising Young Woman, which was nominated for a few categories at the 93rd Academy Awards, including Best Director, Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Film Editing. Fennell went on to win the award for Best Original Screenplay. googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    Fennell also served as the scriptwriter of Saltburn. According to reports, the film’s plot details concern a grand, aristocratic English family.

  • Amazon Studios in talks to acquire British filmmaker Emerald Fennell’s ‘Saltburn’

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Amazon Studios is in negotiations to buy the rights for British actor-filmmaker Emerald Fennell’s next feature film “Saltburn”. According to Deadline, the studio is in active discussions with production banner MRC for the project, which will begin shooting in the UK later this year.

    Fennell, who won an Academy Award for best original screenplay for her directorial debut “Promising Young Woman”, will write and direct the new film, led by Rosamund Pike. Though details about the project are scarce, the film will explore a “story of obsession”.

    “Eternals” actor Barry Keoghan and “Euphoria” star Jacob Elordi will also feature in the movie, which will be produced by Fennell and LuckyChap Entertainment’s Josey McNamara, Tom Ackerley and Margot Robbie.

    As an actor, Fennell recently joined the cast of Warner Bros’ “Barbie”, which has been shooting in the UK. She earlier starred in films like “The Danish Girl” and “Anna Karenina” as well as the Netflix show “The Crown”.

  • Rosamund Pike to topline Emerald Fennell’s next project 

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: British filmmaker Emerald Fennell has roped in Oscar-nominated actor Rosamund Pike to lead her next feature film.

    Fennell, who won an Academy Award for best original screenplay for her directorial debut “Promising Young Woman”, will write and direct the new project.

    According to Deadline, the details about the film are scarce but sources said that it is titled “Saltburn” and centers around a grand, aristocratic English family. The movie will start production later this year.

    As an actor, Fennell recently joined the cast of Warner Bros’ “Barbie”, which has been shooting in the UK. She earlier starred in films like “The Danish Girl” and “Anna Karenina” as well as the Netflix show “The Crown”. 

    Pike is best known for movies like “Die Another Day”, “Pride and Prejudice”, “Gone Girl” and “I Care A Lot”. She was most recently seen in the Amazon series “The Wheel of Time”.

  • Diversity, firsts and more from the 73rd Emmy Awards nominations

    By Associated Press
    LOS ANGELES: Assorted facts and figures drawn from the nominations for the 73rd Emmy Awards: 

    Fennell finds honours across fields Fresh off an Oscar win for best original screenplay for “Promising Young Woman,” which she also directed, Renaissance woman Emerald Fennell has earned an Emmy nomination for acting. She’s up for Best Supporting Actress in a drama for playing Camilla Parker Bowles in “The Crown.” Fennell previously earned two nominations for her writing and production of “Killing Eve” in 2019. 

    Diversity firsts:Mj Rodriguez of ” Pose,” nominated for Best Actress in a drama, breaks ground as the first trans woman to be nominated in a lead acting category. She’s the third trans person overall to be nominated, after Laverne Cox’s 2014 guest drama actress nod for “Orange Is the New Black” and Rain Valdez’s 2020 nomination for short-form comedy or drama actress for “Razor Tongue.” And Jonathan Majors and Jurnee Smollett, of the cancelled HBO sci-fi drama “Lovecraft Country” are the first Black actors to be nominated in the lead acting category for the same drama series. They’re among 46 people of colour nominated across all acting categories. Timing is kind to RashadPhylicia Rashad landed her third straight Emmy nomination for “This Is Us” after getting harsh criticism for her celebration of the freeing of her former co-star Bill Cosby. The voting that led to Rashad’s nod for best guest actress in a drama series ended on June 28, two days before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania reversed Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and allowed him to be released from prison. Rashad celebrated the move by tweeting “FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected!” Her critics included Howard University, where she had just been made dean of the College of Fine Arts. Rashad later tweeted that “I fully support survivors of sexual assault coming forward.” Rashad’s first two Emmy nominations in 1985 and 1986 came for playing Cosby’s wife Clair Huxtable on “The Cosby Show.” APOLLO 73 At age 73, Carl Weathers has earned his first nomination for a major acting award with a nod for Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series for “The Mandalorian.” Best known for playing Apollo Creed in four “Rocky” films, the former NFL player has been acting since the mid-1970s in movies including “Predator,” “Action Jackson” and “Happy Gilmore.” Nominations by the numbers:306: Emmy nominations through the years for “Saturday Night Live”. With 21 new nods in 2021, the sketch institution extends a record that is unlikely ever to be broken. It has nearly double the total of the closest contender, “Game of Thrones” which earned 161. 24: Nods for the queen and the bounty hunter. “The Crown” and “The Mandalorian” are the year’s top nominees with two dozen nods apiece.23: Nominations for fake TV. “WandaVision” with its synthesized faux-shows in the style of “I Love Lucy”, “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “Malcolm In The Middle,” has a shot at a whole bunch of very real Emmys. 20: Nominations for the coach. The total for “Ted Lasso” tops the 19 earned by “Glee” in 2010 to make it the most nominated first-season comedy ever. It fell just short of the record for a comedy series, 22, set by “30 Rock” in 2009. 6: First-time nominations for cast members of “Ted Lasso.” Most of the half-dozen performers were virtually unknown in the U.S. before the upstart soccer comedy. They include star Jason Sudeikis along with Brett Goldstein, Nick Mohammed, Hannah Waddingham, Jeremy Swift and Juno Temple. 5: First-time nominations for cast members of “Hamilton”. There are few things “Hamilton” hasn’t done, few awards it hasn’t won, but the Broadway show’s television version on Disney+ brought the first career Emmy nods to Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Anthony Ramos, Phillipa Soo and Daveed Diggs. 4: Men from “Ted Lasso” nominated in the same category. Goldstein, Mohammed, Swift and Brendan Hunt make up half the nominees for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. 3: Actors nominated for two different shows. Jean Smart is up for best actress in a comedy series for “Hacks” and Best Supporting Actress in a limited series or TV movie for “Mare of Easttown”. Aidy Bryant was nominated for best actress in a comedy for “Shrill” and Best Supporting Actress in a comedy for “Saturday Night Live”. Her “SNL” castmate Kenan Thompson was nominated for best supporting actor in a comedy for that show and best actor in a comedy for “Kenan.” 2: Nominees for Best Variety Sketch Series. The category will be a game of one-on-one between “Saturday Night Live” and “A Black Lady Sketch Show” in a year of slim sketch pickings. The relatively new category had just three nominees last year, but has included either five or six in every year since 2015. 1: Acting nomination for Rosie Perez, who scored her first this year, for Best Supporting Actress in a comedy series in “The Flight Attendant”. Her Emmy nominations resume is deep and diversified, though. She was nominated three times for her choreography on “In Living Color” and once as a host on “The View.” 0: The number of times Netflix has won the Emmys top prize, Best Drama Series, despite a dominant performance in the sheer number of nominations in recent years. It has a very strong chance this year to finally win Best Drama Series with top nominee “The Crown.” 

  • Emerald Fennell opens up on her ‘Cinderella’ challenge

    By IANS
    LOS ANGELES: Actress-writer Emerald Fennell enjoyed the challenge of finding Cinderella’s personality when penning a new musical adaptation of the fairytale.

    Fennell has joined hands with Andrew Lloyd-Webber on a new musical version of the classic fairytale and one of the first problems she encountered was how few defining traits the central character has, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

    “Who was Cinderella exactly? Arguably the most famous heroine in literature, and I could hardly think of a single personality trait. She was very good at housework, very good at singing to small animals, very good at being meek and quiet and forbearing, but she wasn’t exactly a thrill-ride of charisma,” Fennell said.

    She added: “After centuries of sweeping the chimney, she’d been reduced to little more than a bottle blonde with a martyr complex. Luckily, it takes one to know one so I was up for the challenge.”

    The actress-writer tagged Prince Charming a royal wet blanket and shared Cinderella was making a shoddy romantic decision in falling for him.

    “There was also a bit of a heart-throb problem in the shape of royal wet blanket and fairytales’ most famous foot fetishist, Prince Charming,” she wrote in an article for The Times newspaper.

    She added: “It’s not encouraging when a love interest gets confused the moment a woman changes clothes. We’ve all made shoddy romantic decisions, but few of us would actually marry the man who can’t remember your name the morning after a party. Poor Cinderella — the years of stepmotherly neglect had clearly taken their toll on her self-esteem.”

    The biggest obstacle the 35-year-old star faced in her writing was tackling it’s “undeniably problematic central message” about beauty.

    She said: “But more than any of this, the hardest thing to get around was the undeniably problematic central message of the story: change yourself entirely, make yourself over, become beautiful by any means necessary, and you will be worthy of love.”

    “Fairytales aren’t supposed to be lectures — they are hardly the pinnacle of feminist storytelling — but at the same time it would be nice to believe that a happy ending wasn’t dependant on waist-to-hip ratio or the size of one’s feet,” said the actress.

    Fennell added: “So rather than shy away from the ickiness of Cinderella’s central premise, we wanted to interrogate it. Why is it that makeover tales are so endlessly popular and so insidiously seductive? It wasn’t disturbing how outdated the message of Cinderella seemed; to the contrary, it has never felt so worryingly relevant.”

  • Academy award winner Emerald Fennell confirms pregnancy post Oscar ceremony

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: After winning the Best Original Screenplay award at the 2021 Oscars, Hollywood star Emerald Fennell confirmed that she’s pregnant with her second child by giving a flirty remark about ‘Saved by the Bell’ star Zack Morris.

    According to E! News, after winning her award for ‘Promising Young Woman’, which she also directed, Emerald gave a memorable acceptance speech in which she joked about writing an Oscars speech at age 10 that thanked ‘Saved by the Bell’ character Zack Morris for being a supportive partner.

    While accepting her Oscar, Emerald told the audience, “So, the only speech I ever wrote was when I was 10, and I had a look to see if there’d be anything useful from it, but unfortunately, it mostly thanked Zack Morris from Saved by the Bell. He was my very supportive husband.”

    Joking further on the subject, she added, “Unfortunately, he hasn’t been as much a part of my life as I’d hoped, and so that speech is not that useful.”

    After the ceremony, while addressing reporters from the press room, Emerald confirmed that she’s pregnant and expecting her second child with her husband Chris Vernon. The pair welcomed a baby boy in 2019.

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    On being asked about whether she realized that Zack Morris’ name had started trending on social media as a result of her speech, Emerald said, “No, really? Oh, gosh, how embarrassing.”

    Regarding whether she would consider naming her new child after the character portrayed by Mark-Paul Gosselaar, the filmmaker quipped, “Well, you know, actually, if Zack Morris doesn’t mind this situation [rubs belly], I think we should just really give it a go.”

    At another point in the press room, Emerald told E! News that she hopes to potentially make more films that are “glossy and feminine and poppy,” but are also “discussing some very difficult and dark subject matter.”

    Prior to the ceremony, Carey Mulligan, who was nominated for Best Actress for her role in the film ‘Promising Young Woman’, told E! News exclusively that her director was “just the best person.” 

  • 93rd Academy Awards: Emerald Fennell, Daniel Kaluuya declared as early winners

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Actor-filmmaker Emerald Fennell, “Another Round” and Daniel Kaluuya were the early winners at the 93rd Academy Awards.

    Fennell won best original screenplay Oscar for her #MeToo drama “Promising Young Woman”, while best adapted screenplay Academy Award went to Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller for their Anthony Hopkins-Olivia Colman-starrer “The Father”.

    Daniel Kaluuya won best supporting actor Oscar for his role in “Judas and the Black Messiah”. “Another Round” from Denmark won the Oscar for best international feature film. The film is directed by Thomas Vinterburg and stars Mads Mikkelson.

    “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” won makeup and hairstyling, and costume design Oscars.

  • Emerald Fennell to pen script for ‘Zatanna’ movie

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Emerald Fennell, the breakout director of “Promising Young Woman”, will be writing the script for DC Films’ upcoming movie about superhero Zatanna.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, the project hails from studio Warner Bros and filmmaker JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot.

    Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Murphy Anderson in 1964, Zatanna is a magician like her father Zatara.

    Zatanna has been involved with the Justice League, has had a childhood with Batman and was romantically linked to character John Constantine, the occult master who will be the subject of an HBO Max series produced by Abrams.

    The character was played by Serinda Swan for three seasons on the CW’s “Smallville”.

    Fennell, who previously worked on critically-acclaimed series “Killing Eve” and also featured in Netflix royal drama “The Crown”, made history earlier this month when her directorial debut movie “Promising Young Woman” bagged five Oscar nominations.

    The filmmaker became first woman director to be nominated for best director for a directorial debut.

    Her film has also earned Academy Award nods for best picture, screenplay, editing and actress for Carey Mulligan.