Variety Lounge Red Sea 2025

Nicholas Hoult on Being Given Darker Roles and Working With Robert Eggers, Clint Eastwood and Justin Kurzel in the Space of a Year

December 8, 2025

Has Nicholas Hoult gone over to the dark side? Speaking at the Variety Lounge presented by Red Sea Film Festival, the actor acknowledged that characters such as Lex Luthor in “Superman,” as well as Thomas Hutter in “Nosferatu,” Justin Kemp in “Juror #2” and Bob Mathews in “The Order” had all been darker than those […]
Source Link Nicholas Hoult on Being Given Darker Roles and Working With Robert Eggers, Clint Eastwood and Justin Kurzel in the Space of a Year

December 7, 2025

Of all the attendees at the Red Sea Film Festival, only jury member Nadine Labaki can lay claim to having directed the most successful Arabic film in history. “Capernaum,” Labaki’s third feature after “Caramel” and “Where do We Go Now,” became an unexpected smash hit for the groundbreaking Lebanese director back in 2018. The film […]
Source Link Nadine Labaki Teases Next Feature as Director, Talks Having ‘Hardest Year of My Life’ After Record-Breaking Smash Hit ‘Capernaum’

December 5, 2025

The fifth edition of the Red Sea Film Festival opened its doors on Thursday night in Jeddah, with the regional premiere of “Giant,” telling the story of ’90s British boxing icon Prince Naseem Hamed, raising the curtain. For director Rowan Athale, the experience was enthralling but also wholly bizarre, largely because of the sheer amount […]
Source Link ‘Giant’ Director Rowan Athale on Opening Red Sea Film Festival: ‘I Looked at the Speakers and It’s Juliette Binoche, Jessica Alba, Michael Caine, Vin Diesel, Sean Baker … and Me’