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‘Infinite’ Film Review: Mark Wahlberg Action-Thriller Overspends and Underwhelms Cars and planes blow up real good in a film that feels like everybody’s paycheck project Elizabeth Weitzman | June 10, 2021 @ 12:01 AM Peter Mountain/Paramount+ If you’ve ever wished that video games could look more like real life — or that real life could look more like video games — Antoine Fuqua is here to fulfill your fantasies. Many of the actors in the Paramount+ release “Infinite” might as w...

Over the Moon and The Willoughbys, both of which have fallen out of the race. So has the sixth longlisted film, Dreamworks Animation’s The Croods: A New Age. In recent years, Disney hasn’t dominated this category as decisively as at the Oscars or Golden Globes: it has won the BAFTA in two of the last six years. But this is the first time since 2014 that it has accounted for the majority of the nominees, and Soul, fresh from winning at the Globes, goes into this award as the favorite. The...

Rocks, and The Father lead this year’s nominations, with two women—Chloé Zhao and Sarah Gavron—nabbing seven nominations each. Four women total earned nods for directing compared to last year’s all-male directing nominees, and in a reversal from last year’s entirely white acting nominees, 16 of 2021s 24 nominated actors are from underrepresented groups. Advertisement Deadline, the changes come as the result of a seven-month review process (HFPA better be taking some copious notes), ...

Creating VFX Waves for Tom Hanks Battle at Sea in Greyhound Jazz Tangcay, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail An unrelenting cold Atlantic Ocean, huge waves and overcast weather were the elements for the Tom Hanks drama “Greyhound.” While much of the film was built on soundstages in Louisiana and on the decommissioned USS Kidd, visual effects came into play for the film’s main battle sequence. Hanks plays Commander Krause, the officer who has to defend his ship and its convoy of vessels as ...